About the role
Love Care, but not the shifts and weekends??
This role requires working of Monday- Friday only! 8-30am until 4-30 pm.
Support, plan and deliver a care package, which has been identified through the assessment needs in order to meet the individuals needs and outcomes. You will be working as part of a Team and using your skills and experience to grow and develop the Team. The role involves you to liaise with families, carers and other professional. To help to plan, implement and monitor activities, alongside our Care and Support assistants. Part of the role will be supervising care staff on a 1:1 basis.
What will you be doing?
The position of Day Centre Officer will be working over 2 sites. The Day Centres are based in Daventry and Towcester. The ability to travel to 2 bases is essential, as day to day you will be based at either site.
Whilst at Towcester and Daventry you will be supporting the Team leader and a team that consist of 8 Care staff on a 1:1 basis.
As a key worker you are responsible for designated people to monitor and ensure their needs and outcomes are met with the team.
About you
You will need experience of working with people that have learning disabilities, physical disabilities and or people with age related conditions. Be able to demonstrate that you have an interest in working in this area and that you have the ability to undertake the role.
Be an effective communicator, encouraging and motivating with good IT skills.
NVQ 2 in care or similar is the minimum qualification required as you must be able to assess new referrals and encage with professionals in formulating a personal profile and implement opportunities to facilitate an outcome-based provision. The successful person requires to be calm, organised and have a sense of fun.
Our benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, these include:
- Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days annual leave per year, 29 days for senior managers (pro rata, depending on how many hours per week you work), plus bank holidays. An additional 5 days, linked to continuous service, and ability to purchase up to 6 weeks additional leave per year.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Car Lease scheme
- Payment of professional subscription / membership - If your job description requires that you are registered with or are a member of a professional body, WNC will pay for your professional subscription or membership fees.
- Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities.
- A variety of flexible working options to support your work/life balance, including full or part time, term time, 9-day fortnight, etc. (subject to business needs).
- Our West Ways of Working – We want our workforce to thrive, and we equip our employees with the right technology to support hybrid and collaborative working, on or off site, depending on the role.
- Making a difference - If you want to use your skills and experience with an organisation that are genuinely invested in making a difference, are committed to improving people's lives, and whose success has a direct impact on the wellbeing of your family, friends and people in your local area, then West Northamptonshire Council is the place for you.
About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.
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